Slav: “I don’t want to feel like this”
The manager has remained honest and upbeat throughout the current troubles and has now gone into the prediction business with confidence.
Explaining his and the team’s position he declared: “”I am positive that we aren’t going to be in this situation in one month, two months, three months. Especially not in May. But we are talking about now and now we are.
“The situation is like this. I’m positive, I’m brave, I’m optimistic but it is time to say what it is really is openly without pointing fingers. [I have] no problem that the responsibility is all mine. We can’t continue like this. We can’t.”
“Of course it affects me big time. It affects every manager and it affects players. That’s why I don’t like this feeling.
“I don’t want to feel like this, I want to go home and enjoy my evening with my family.I feel bad. Of course it affects my private life and I believe that it definitely affects the players’ private life. Of course it does. We are not happy.
“We have to work hard. There is no secret. You can ask me to say words and a secret formula but you have to work hard.
“We changed the system, we changed the personnel, we turned things around at the club, we used a lot of players. Some of the players are back from injury, some of the players are new. {You have} to try to provoke and force something new.